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On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 02:28:48PM -0600, Karl Williamson wrote:
> I also think that Vertical Tab and Form Feed are so infrequent that they
> should be counted as non-text (currently VT is non-text, but FF is)
Consistency is good, and while FF is rare, it's nothing like *as* rare
as VT. I know that I have some documents that contain it, because I
remember deliberately putting them there, but I've only ever seen VT in
deliberately pathological test cases.
So I vote for FF being treated as text.
> ESC currently is
> considered text, and my patch retains that, as it is relatively commonly
> used in rich text files.
RTF isn't really plain ASCII text so I think that's a bad argument. ESC
isn't printable so I'd love to see it considered to be un-text. However,
I think that I'd again go with consistency and so hold my nose and treat
it as text - unless it becomes un-text everywhere else.
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